Rocky Mountains / ABierstadt 1863. – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Rocky Mountains / ABierstadt 1863., preserved in this antique engraving. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Rocky Mountains / ABierstadt 1863.
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Rather than a summit view alone, this engraving places an Indian encampment in the foreground of the Rocky Mountains, the subject that sets it apart from other views on the board. Albert Bierstadt, a German-born painter, had traveled in the West in 1859 with a federal survey party, and his name is signed on the plate beneath the 1863 date. The print was entered for copyright in 1866 under an Act of Congress, a period when the Rockies were a major theme in American landscape painting and Bierstadt's large canvases drew wide public attention.
| Created / published | c1866. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Genre | in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Library has two impressions |
| Notes | Title from item. Signed on plate ABierstadt 1863" lower right. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866 |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--1860-1870. Indian encampments--Rocky Mountains--1860-1870. Rocky Mountains--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 9,917 × 7,086 px · prints to 33 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 02792u Rocky Mountains ABierstadt 1863. |
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